Opinion: The Perils of 'Peace Talks'

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... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... The Obama administration is pushing ahead with peace talks ... with both Syria and Iran ... despite very little evidence that these regimes actually want to cooperate with us ... why we have a history of talking to rogue states ... that don't do what we want I've got American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Michael Rubin ... the author of a new book on this very subject to dancing with the double the perils of the different machines ... so ... why are we keep talking to the rind even on a piece of it to give up their nuclear weapons present Obama is operating under the assumption ... that it never hurts to talk the Iranians are going to prove them wrong ... well it never hurts to talk but it does hurt to talk to us that there are costs here and ... there are very specific costs certainly the Iranians may seem to be driving down the clock ... I certainly human rights it ... is also has two executions of skyrocketed at ever since we began the year book steps back takes the long view and says look this isn't the first time ... that we tried to talk to dictators ... what the mistakes that we've made in the past holds the biggest mistake in this blew my mind ... the mill us will turn to a lot of work with and they spend more time in the classroom ... and they actually do on the field going after the mistakes ... looking overdone it a try to improve ... the State Department not once in its history has conducted a lessons learned exercise about Wyatt's diplomacy ... has failed ... well you know I mentioned Iran at the beginning that Iran isn't the only reaching were trying to talk to you it's also Syria ... you were just in Syria recently ... a way that you see on the ground there and and get what you saw ... is it smart for us to keep talking ... well certainly I was in northeastern Syria which is the part that's remarkably calm and placid ... what really frustrates people there is that ... the United States ignores Tom we'd rather reach out to our enemies calm and calm our adversaries rather than really support our allies this is a constant pattern which effects the Raman effect Afghanistan it effects the Korean Peninsula ... it's really a problem when we negotiate with the US we have had some success for example would be a ... good of chemical weapons why didn't those talks succeeds ... where Iran and Syria are failing it's all about setting the right circumstances rate intend to sit down with for the top ... he put intermediate ... range ballistic missiles in your purse ... and took a tough realize what it was up against more market Duffy ... admitted after two thousandthree that the reason he gave up his nuclear weapons program was it because we asked him to its because we showed the where with all to do something about it unless he complied so Michael Kamen action Obama have struck Syrian airfields ... when he sent Navy ships in the region was preparing to do that you need backup eventually it really is on that here's my concern was the Middle East are caused by well and are not caused by water fundamentally their cause by Apple for confidence if we draw a red wines and then ignore them ... that actually makes conflicts much more likely ... rather than peaks lineup sometime in the White House is going to pick up your book is called dancing with that double platinum prices to Michael Vick think I don't watch